together for better hearing

Since its establishment in 2006, the Hear the World Foundation has supported over 90 projects benefiting disadvantaged people and particularly children in need with hearing loss around the world. Here is an overview of all our projects.

Bosnia and Herzegovina, partner: Association for Support of Children with Hearing and Speech Impairment (EHO), 2017-2018, wireless microphone systems for better hearing for school children with hearing loss. Read more

India, partner: The Sylvia Wright Trust, since 2014, technology and expertise to provide school children with hearing aids and to train local experts in audiological care so that the children have access follow up care and speech therapy. Read more

India, partner: Partners for a Greater Voice, since 2017, training programs to build up pediatric audiological knowledge and empower local project staff.

Jamaica, partner: University of the West Indies, 2011, funding to support first master program in audiology.

Kenya, partner: Cargo Human Care, 2008, funding, technology and expertise to set up a hearing center in Nairobi.

Kiribati, partner: School and Centre for Children with Special Needs, since 2015, funding and hearing aids to ensure comprehensive audiological care for children in need. Read more

Lebanon, partner: KATAHO, since 2017, hearing screenings and hearing aid fittings for Syrian children living in refugee camps in Lebanon.

Moldova, partner: Special School for Children with Hearing Impairment and Late Deafness no. 12, 2016-2018, funding and hearing aid technology to give school children better access to education. Read more

Mongolia, partner: Global Foundation For Children With Hearing Loss, since 2017, building capacity by training local staff in pediatric audiology to help children with hearing loss.

Myanmar, partner: Mandalay School for the Deaf, since 2017, hearing aid technology and funding to help school children with hearing loss to hear again.

Peru, partner: World Wide Hearing Foundation, 2016-2018, funding and expertise to conduct hearing screenings to round 30'000 school children accross Peru. Read more

Peru, partner: CBM Switzerland, 2016, funding of a course for teachers, social workers and hearing healthcare professionals to fill the gap of a non-existing national hearing healthcare program. Read more

Rwanda, partner: Rwandan Disabled People are Rehabilitated and Reintegrated in their Rights (HRD), 2010, funding for early detection of hearing loss and audiological care.

South Africa, partner: Eduplex, 2007/2013, funding and technology to ensure comprehensive audiological care for school children.

South Africa, partner: Sound for Silence NPC, 2014, funding and technology for early identification and treatment of hearing loss.

Uganda, partner: Kentalis International Foundation (KIF), 2013, funding to train local experts in basic pediatric audiological care to diagnose and treat hearing loss at an early stage.

United Kingdom, partner: Saturday Club of Deaf, 2011-2012, funding of a intercultural camp for children and young adults from the UK and Germany with hearing loss.

USA, Appalachia, partner: Red Bird Mission and Clinic, since 2008, hearing aids and basic audiological care for the people from Appalachia. Read more

USA, partner: The Center for Hearing and Speech, 2014, funding to train local experts and to improve audiological services.

USA, partner: Willie Ross School for the Deaf, Inc., 2014, funding of a project to deploys qualified experts to help children with hearing loss and their families.

USA, partner: Hands & Voices Inc., 2013, funding of a self-help program for parents of children with hearing loss.

USA, partner: Vanderbilt University, Department of Hearing and Speech Sciences, since 2015, funding of a scholarship for an international audiology students with exceptional academic skills to complete the graduate degree in paediatric audiology at the Vanderbilt University. Read more

USA, partner: UNC Chapel Hill, since 2010, a yearly fellowship grant to an outstanding student in Pediatric Audiology at the University of North Carolina. Read more

USA, partner: Friends of Tennessee’s Babies with Special Needs (FRIENDS), 2016, donation of hearing aids to the Hearing Aid Loaner Bank to fit children birth to three with hearing loss. Read more

Vietnam, partner: Global Foundation for Children with Hearing Loss (GFCHL), 2010-2016, funding, technology and expertise to build up three regional audiology centers and to train locals in ear medical care. Read more

Worldwide, Hear the World project: "52 Children", since 2010, Hear the World project providing 52 children in need from all over the world with hearing aids and follow-up care. Read more

Give the gift of hearing

Our vision is a world in which everybody has the chance of good hearing. To turn this vision into reality, we support projects all over the world benefiting people and particularly children in need with hearing loss and open up a prospect of a better future for them.

Give the gift of hearing

With your donation you help people in need to better hear. Thanks to your contribution we can provide even more powerful hearing solutions and free-of-charge follow-up care to people and particularly children in need with hearing loss all over the world.

100 % of your donation effectively used

We guarantee to direct every donation efficiently, in order to make a sustained contribution towards better hearing in conjunction with our professional partners all over the world. And as Sonova bears all of the administrative costs of the foundation, 100 percent of your support goes directly to our projects.

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The Hear the World Foundation is an officially recognized swiss foundation and all donations are tax deductible following the rules and regulations of your country of residency.

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